Hi Everyone,

Hope you have all had a good week and that those of you who attended NCPH Intersessional had safe travels “there and back again”.

We will have our next WT3 call this coming Tuesday, Feb 21^st  at 20:00 UTC.  The main focus of our time this week will be Confusing Similarity Objections and String Similarity Evaluations as these two topics are quite often intermingled.  I have attached the agenda here for your review.

In addition to the applicable sections of the Final Issue Report and AGB shown in the agenda, here are a few more links to some background documents you may wish to review prior to the call.

· https://www.icann.org/public-comments/sco-framework-principles-2014-02-11-en

· http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/odr/proposed-sco-framework-principles-11feb14-en.pdf

· https://www.icann.org/news/public-comment/report-comments-sco-framework-principles-24apr14-en.pdf

However, before we jump into these topics, we will take a few minutes to review what we have so far for our CC2 questions.  We are going to need to finalize the WT3 specific questions so that they may be formally presented to the plenary session of the PDP on 27^th.  To date we have had virtually no input on these questions from the WT3 membership.  Robin is taking a final pass over what leadership and staff have pulled together thus far, but please do take time to review and comment on them this week.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iZBCVEAJPBYEDg7jLsMHKkNczR_b6-jH2Wl5eVH-WWM/edit#heading=h.38j2yb41rjht

I look forward to talking with you all on the 21^st.

Have a great weekend,

Karen

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